Magdalena Kopp
| Magdalena Kopp | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1948 Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, West Germany |
| Died | 15 June 2015 (aged 66–67) |
| Residence | Neu-Ulm. Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Known for | Wife and accomplice of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez |
| Home town | Neu-Ulm |
| Spouse(s) | Ilich Ramírez Sánchez |
Magdalena Cäcilia Kopp (2 April 1948 – 15 June 2015) was a photographer and member of the Frankfurt Revolutionary Cells (RZ). She was known for being the wife and accomplice of political militant Ilich Ramírez Sánchez also known as "Carlos the Jackal".
Magdalena Kopp grew up in Neu-Ulm and after leaving school trained as a photographer. In 1967 she went to Frankfurt, where she frequented in the early 1970s in the leftist student circles and lived with friends in a shared flat. She worked for the publication Red Star and was one of the founders of the Frankfurt Revolutionary Cells (RZ). Members of this group, in addition to her new friend Johannes Weinrich were Hans-Joachim Klein, Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann. They were involved in the attack on the OPEC conference in 1975 and in the hijacking of an Air France plane to Entebbe in 1976.
With Weinrich she met with the internationally wanted political militant/terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos who was his friend. Later she moved to France and joined the command "Boudia" led by Carlos, who also became her lover. Soon she worked as a part of his inner circle.
On 16 February 1982 she was arrested in Paris by French police together with Bruno Bréguet, a Swiss citizen who had served a prison sentence in Israel for possession of explosives. When a policeman noticed their Peugeot car was improperly parked and asked to see their papers Breguet attempted to shoot him but had forgotten to release his pistol's safety catch and was overpowered. Kopp, who had bolted, was cornered a block away from the scene and surrendered. Five kilos of Penthrit (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) were found in the car as well as false passports and other incriminating documents including sketch plans of various locations. Under interrogation it was established that they were planning to blow up the offices of the exiled Arabic political magazine Al Watan Al Arabi because it had annoyed Syria's President Hafez el-Assad who had granted Kopp, Carlos and other terrorists asylum in Damascus.
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